Senses Quotes - Page 30

• Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work.

  William J. Brennan

  Reading, Law, Encounters

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• Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

  Steve Hagen

  Philosophy, Smell, Medicine

  Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.112, Tuttle Publishing

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• Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.

  Suzy Kassem

  Common Sense, Kind, Speak

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• There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Black, Melancholy

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

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• I'm a woman that's living in this world of everybody telling everyone how they should look, and what they should be eating and how people can lose this much weight this fast, and it just kind of overwhelms our senses. If I could just make the tiniest bit of difference in getting rid of that because it is so annoying, I would love that.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Differences, People, Looks

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• If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.

  Saul Williams

  Eye, Poetry, Darkness

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

  Tiberius

  Change, Men, Long

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• It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Winning, Finding The One, Risk

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• Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Pain, Dark, Cities

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• Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

  Joost Meerloo

  Keys, Mind, Technique

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• Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Phrases, Gains

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• The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowing Who You Are, Mind, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Sorry, Sight

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• Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

  Judith Rodin

  Children, Simple, Play

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• If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

  Virginia Woolf

  Success, Sight, People

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.835, Wordsworth Editions

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• Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Perception, Brain

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1994). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.141, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

  John Dewey

  Roots, Mind, Balance

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.280, University of Illinois Press

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• The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

  Richard Restak

  Essence, Brain, Function

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• .....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

  Eric Jensen

  Brain, Doe, Research

  Eric Jensen (1995). “Brain-based Learning & Teaching”, Brain Store Incorporated

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• Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Knowing, Principles, Gathering Data

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

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• Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.

  Robert Kegan

  Gathering Data, Find Me

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• It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

  George Santayana

  Song, Art, Math

  George Santayana (2014). “Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Sight, Cameras

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Technology, Tools, Use

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• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  Catherine Webb

  Cutting, Mushrooms, Circles

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